Nicholas Ma
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Nicholas Ma is a filmmaker and producer known for his work on documentaries and for being the son of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nicholas Ma canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249790 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Ma Context triple: [Yo-Yo Ma, hasChild, Nicholas Ma]
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A.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
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B.
Nelson Chai
Nelson Chai is a business executive and former Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies, known for his leadership roles in major financial and technology companies.
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C.
Greg Yang
Greg Yang is a mathematician and AI researcher known for his work on the theoretical foundations of deep learning and his role at xAI.
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D.
Tony Wu
Tony Wu is a member of the technical team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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E.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Ma Target entity description: Nicholas Ma is a filmmaker and producer known for his work on documentaries and for being the son of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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A.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
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B.
Nelson Chai
Nelson Chai is a business executive and former Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies, known for his leadership roles in major financial and technology companies.
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C.
Greg Yang
Greg Yang is a mathematician and AI researcher known for his work on the theoretical foundations of deep learning and his role at xAI.
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D.
Tony Wu
Tony Wu is a member of the technical team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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E.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
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filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Primetime Emmy Award nomination for "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
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linked to:
Emmy Award
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| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| childOf | Yo-Yo Ma ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Morgan Neville ⓘ |
| education |
Harvard University alumnus
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New York University Tisch School of the Arts alumnus ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Chinese American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
documentary film
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film ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | biographical documentary ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Jill Hornor
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Yo-Yo Ma ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.nicholasma.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
documentary films
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producing documentaries ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
SUITE NO. 1, PRELUDE
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? ⓘ |
| occupation |
director
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film producer ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ |
| relative | Yo-Yo Ma ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
director of "SUITE NO. 1, PRELUDE"
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producer of "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" ⓘ |
| sibling | Emily Ma ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Nicholas Ma Description of subject: Nicholas Ma is a filmmaker and producer known for his work on documentaries and for being the son of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.